Show LOCAL NEWS on friday george mcneil mc neil and anc wife were deprived of their little son of two months by the cold hand band of death funeral was held on oil sunday the young ladles ladies concert which w was as advertised for saturday evening feb 2nd and has been postponed to monday evening feb ath it will be in the tabernacle the city council will hold an open meeting next tuesday evening and as many water claimants as can possibly attend should do so as the resolution referred to in the council notes will be discussed A meeting was held in the tabernacle on monday to consider the advisability vis ability of organizing 0 k an agricultural society and another meeting will be held in the same place next nest monday at 2 p in the recent snow fall here although not being t deep enough to cover the cross bars on the telegraph poles as is reported to be the case in some places where tile the C P ry crosses the serra Nevada mountains is deep enough 0 how everto cause the farmer to become more hopeful of being able to grow a crop next year recently joseph mabey brought ta us a couple of parsnips par snips which meas ared five inches in diameter at the top and two inches where they were cut off being twelve inches long he says that lie he raised bushels on three quarters of an acre mr mabey furnis furnished bed several items on gardening for the that our county got in the pamphlet prepared for the midwinter fair it appears that it is not altogether a disadvantage to have a railroad pass through ali ones field as it was probably due to that more than to anything else that jesse argyle walked off with the prize at the masquerade at hates hales hall the other evening evening for taking the part of a tramp the the most perfectly of course he had tile the advantage having seen so many of them count ties through 6 his fathers field in last weeks clipper it was announced that a mr jesen was in our vicinity resulting n for the kansas sufferers we are not aware of the success lie he is having but have noticed in the papers that 0 ogden 0 den sent off I 1 a carload of provisions provi sons to aid the unfortunate people of the praire state and also that the agricultural department at washington has agreed to furnished those people with seed grain for spring planting gr at a recent meeting of the stockholders of the woods cross creamery company it was decided to sell the creamery buil building diDo 0 and the machiner machinery y owned by the stockholders of that company so on monday last several enterprising 0 people of south and west bountiful took in the 1116 property at a bargain A lawsuit had been started against the company by the firm who built tile the house and aup supplied plied the machinery to recover the balance of the pay due them so the property was sold to satisfy the creditors the purchasers have not decided what they will do with the property we learn from mrs henry moss that her husband who i Is s preaching the gospel to the inhabitants of the sandwich islands is hale bale and hearty enjoying his missionary labors very much in february it will be a year since he be left home on his arrival there lie he taught tl school at the mission house up to may when he commenced to travel around on the island while performing his missionary labors he has also been privileged to visit some of noted volcanoes eaves caves and other natural curiosities of the islands we expect when he returns home that he be will be loaded down with beautiful specimens of shells and plants which are so numerous there these things will interest lim him more than they would many others as he has studied the natural sciences at the university the deputy statisticians who were appointed by the th county court on the of december are arc required by law to commence work on oil or before tile the of february y the statisticians of each precinct will visit all the houses in their beat and it will be to the interest of the people to give the required information at once and not cause the statisticians any unnecessary work such as calling a second time as the expenses are paid out of the public treasury and we all h have ave to help fill it there are three lines 0 of f information wanted one schedule relating to commercial matters one schedule to industrial pursuits find and one schedule on agriculture this list last will concern the largest number of people in tile the county the information wanted for this last named schedule is such as the number dumber of of land owned amount of it improved irrigated farmed etc amounts and kinds of grain fruits vegetables raised and wine cider butter forgham v and other similar things made mr evan jones of this city 1 stepped into our office on business a few lays days ago ago and while in conversation with him we learned fro from in him that he and bishop porter of cen trev trevalle and some others had spent considerable time last fall developing t some mining claims owned by them and located in hard scrabble canyon just over the ridge from head of mill creek in the mill creek mining district but in morgan county lie he says they have discovered a six foot vein of iron ore which assays essays per cent iron he added that pig iron only goes 70 per cent we learned from other sources that the norway iron manufacturing e company of utah has spent about soo in developing 0 four claims of iron mines in that neighborhood neighbor bood the they y too have some excellent prospects it would be gratifying to us to look over the tops of the mountains toward the rising sun and see dense coils of smoke ascending heaven ward from some extensive iron manufacturing 0 plants where tile the market gardener could dispose of some of his vegetables at a good price like lie he use to get at park city |